MA in Philosophy of Mind and Embodied Cognition

I’m also excited to introduce students to our redesigned Philosophy of Mind MA (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...) and Cognitive Science MSc programmes (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...). Both include a wide range of philosophy and interdisciplinary options and intro modules. #PhilMind #PhilCogSci #CogSci

Despite whatever methodological convictions exist among Conceptual #Metaphor theorists, it’s tempting to propose that \textit{if} there is an opportunity to logically generate some part of the theory, then we should seize that opportunity, even though we aren’t…

#cognitivelinguistics #cogsci

🧪🧠📈 Happy #SciFri folks! Wanted to share out some work my team has been working on.

Introducing TRIBE v2: a foundation model of the brain's responses to sight, sound & language.

great work led by @sdascoli.bsky.social! Check out his post for more details! 🤩

#cogsci #neuro #compneuro #neuroai

We just released a new preprint on visual imagery -- take a look and tell us your thoughts -- reposts appreciated!

#imagery
#visualimagery
#imagination
#aphantasia
#hyperphantasia
#visionscience
#psychscisky
#cogsci
#cognitivescience

CogSci 2026 - Cognitive Science Society Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Our paper "Cognitive Efficiency and Perceived Text Quality in Children: how Concreteness and Specificity shape Clarity and Informativeness" has been accepted at #CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2026/

Can cognitive psychology be brute forced by AI? My current thinking on whether AI is looming as a threat or a tool for cognitive science

I've been pondering whether #cogsci can/will be brute forced by AI. I put my thoughts down in this blogpost, covering the current harms and promising use cases of AI; I also try to generalise from the attempt to solve Erdös problems with AI to cognitive science with a bit of philosophy of science.

The Classroom Lie Series: Rereading is not Studying At home, we’ve been having some conversations with my oldest about college life. She’s a high school junior, so that’s one of the next big steps around the corner. It's led to many memories of my time in undergrad. As I was researching this classroom lie, I found myself thinking back on the spring of my sophomore year at Indiana University.

I spent my college finals re-reading notes and felt prepared. The research says I was wrong. Here's what actually builds long-term learning. 👇 #RetrievalPractice #TheClassroomLie #EdResearch #TeacherPD #CogSci #EdChat

Cognitive Load Theory Explained for Primary Science Teachers - Danny Nics Science Fix Practical guide to cognitive load theory for primary science teachers. Reduce overload, boost retention.

Working memory is limited to roughly 5-9 items at a time. Everything about how we plan and sequence science lessons should follow from that. Chunking, retrieval starters, narrated diagrams, these aren't add-ons; they're the core of the job.
www.sciencefix.co.uk/2026/04/cogn...
#uked #cogsci

#CogSci #Psychology #PsychSci #Neuroscience, #Neuroskyence

"Figure 2: Architecture and training workflow of F/S-RM. (a) Adaptive reasoning task. (b) Reward signal generation modeled as an adaptive reasoning chain. (c) Two-stage training pipeline for optimizing fast-thinking judgment and slow-thinking CoT reasoning."

"Table 1: Comparison on RewardBench, RM-Bench, JudgeBench, and average performance. Bold numbers indicate the best performance, Underlined numbers indicate the second best. ∆ shows hybrid performance change vs. full slow thinking; ↓ shows token reduction vs. full slow thinking. Detailed comparison results are provided in the Appendix A.7."

Here's another one using reward models: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Sidenote: "First token PERDITION" made me laugh — reinforcement learning meets Christian theology!

#cogSci #CompSci #religion

APA PsycNet

Finally, we tested whether cross-modal learning is enhanced for semantic-based stimuli vs. meaningless ones.

Does meaning make the difference? Check out the paper for the results! 📑
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #CogSci #Psychology #Multisensory

The Classroom Lie Series: Learning Styles If you, like me, attended a traditional education school prior to starting your career in education, you probably spent at least a little time learning about the concept of learning styles. You might recognize the terms visual, auditory, linguistic, or kinesthetic. You may also have been asked to design lessons with different learning styles embedded. If you were like me, you may have even had a poster of the different learning styles in your classroom.

Nearly 90% of teachers believe in learning styles. The research says otherwise. Time to close the gap. 🧠 #ScienceOfReading #EdResearch #CognitiveScience #CogSci #TeacherPD #TheClassroomLie

Perception and Memory Share the Same Brain Circuits, and the Line Between Them Is Collapsing - Daily Neuron Perception and memory rely on overlapping brain circuits, meaning what you see is partly constructed from what you've seen before.

Perception and memory rely on overlapping brain circuits, meaning what you see is partly constructed from what you've seen before. #cogsci #neuroscience #philosophy

dailyneuron.com/perception-a...

Released: PUTMAN Interpretive Debugger

A narrow demo for contextual meaning reconstruction: same token, different context package, different result. Bridge relations matter. Rigidity can narrow what stays interpretable.

Live demo: putmanmodel.github.io/putman-inter...

#AI #CogSci #NarrativeDesign

Photo showing Philipp Haueis in front of an audience pf philosophers, behind him a slide with a conceptual model of the term „cortical column“ in neuroscience, showing a Greek temple to illustrate that neuroscientists in the 1970s thought that the brain was similarly organized into vertical pillars.

Ingas a great time presenting and discussing my work on patchwork concepts and the dynamics of scientific understanding at the HPS department in Athens. Thanks to all participants for the great feedback and Theodore Arabatzis for hosting me!
#philsci #edusky #cogsci #philskyence

Book Symposium on The Brain Abstracted — The Brains Blog Book Symposium on The Brain Abstracted in Philosophy of the Mind Sciences Philipp Haueis, Department of Philosophy and Institute for Studies of Science (ISOS), Bielefeld University, Germany The jou…

I wrote a summary of our author meets critics special issue @phimisci.bsky.social at the brains blog: philosophyofbrains.com/2026/03/23/b...

#philskyence #edusky #cogsci #neursoskyence

Retrieval Practice: Boosting Memory and Student Success In past posts, I've shared a bit about the Cognitive Science Microcredential I earned through the Center for Excellence in Leadership and Learning. Cognitive science is all about understanding how our minds work. The main point of the microcredential is to know how people learn best and then apply that understanding to support the work we do in the classroom. Today, I want to focus on the concept of Retrieval Practice.

Students think rereading helps them learn. Research says the opposite. 🔬 The testing effect is one of the most powerful tools we're underusing. New post 👇 #CogSci #EdLeadership #ScienceOfLearning #FESTigers

I had the honor to edit wonderful commentaries by @okaydaniellle.bsky.social, @zoedrayson.bsky.social, @neuroai.bsky.social, @jake-browning.bsky.social, @nicohinrichs.bsky.social,
@andreablomkvist.bsky.social and colleagues, as well as Nedah Nemati

#cogsci, #philsky, #neuroskyence, #edusky

The Debate on AI Consciousness Reveals Our Scientific Limits - Daily Neuron A new analysis argues that the current debate on AI consciousness reveals more about the limits of our scientific methods than it does about machines.

A new analysis argues that the current debate on AI consciousness reveals more about the limits of our scientific methods than it does about machines. #cogsci #consciousness #AI

dailyneuron.com/the-debate-o...

Language creates an altered state of consciousness <p><em>We tend to think of language as a transparent tool—a neutral medium for expressing thoughts and describing reality. While philosophers have (more or less) come to agree that “the map is not the...

We treat language as a neutral tool for describing reality, but what if it's actually creating it? | https://bit.ly/4uxxAjd

Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is.

#philsci #cogsci

Original post on mastodon.online

Afternoon boost for this morning's newsletter - a really neat set of studies which show how collective intelligence can be enhanced if groups structure their discussions, breaking down big questions into smaller parts. Even when the component answers are still uncertain, the overall accuracy of […]

Os comparto una infografía en la que resumo las diez ilusiones en la enseñanza que @paulkirschner.bsky.social @carlhendrick.substack.com y Jim Heal analizan y desarrollan en su fantástico libro "Instructional Illusions". #RecomiendoLeer
#cogsci

Portrait of Judith Ellen Fan, a woman with straight dark hair and short bangs, smiling at the camera and wearing a dark green blouse and a delicate geometric necklace. Set against a teal background, the graphic reads: “Congratulations to Judith Ellen Fan (Stanford University), winner of the 2026 Lila R. Gleitman Prize for Early-Career Contributions to Cognitive Science.”

Congratulations to Judith Ellen Fan @judithfan.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 Lila R. Gleitman Prize.

Dr. Fan's research reflects the broad scope of modern #CogSci, bridging #psychology, #neuroscience, vision science, and #education.

Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

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How do humans learn to weight signals when reasoning about emotions? Children change both kinds of cues they rely on and the ways they use cues in their reasoning. New work from Andrea Stein using adorable stimuli, too. 🧪 dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc... #cogsci #devsci #AffectSci
#PsychSciSky

OSF

Check out the up-to-date preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

(p.s. previous versions of this work appeared at #IC2S2 and #CogSci)

I’ve been reading Zoltán Kövecses’s Extended Conceptual #MetaphorTheory. I was going to do a notes thread, but I’m hesitant bc I feel it would just be a steady stream of complaints and disagreements. Perhaps I should just move on to something else. hmmm

#linguistics #cognitivelinguistics #cogsci

"In terms of individual differences, there is a positive main effect of logical reasoning (𝛽 ̂ = 0.22, 95% CrI = [0.06, 0.38]) and ToM (𝛽 ̂ = 0.26, 95% CrI = [0.10, 0.42]), meaning that participants with higher logical reasoning and ToM selected the target more often. There is no main effect of memory (𝛽 ̂ = 0.06, 95% CrI = [-0.10, 0.22]). There is also a positive interaction of logical reasoning with condition, whereby the effect of logical reasoning is stronger in the simple condition (𝛽 ̂ = 0.45, 95% CrI = [0.13, 0.78]), but no interaction of memory or ToM with condition."

"Fig 8 visualizes the effects of logical reasoning and ToM in the two implicature conditions."

What helps people understand conversational cues?

Correctly identifying implications correlated not just with "theory of mind", but also reflective and logical reasoning. Short-term memory? Not so much.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#communication #cogSci #linguistics #xPhi #logic

A neural signature of adaptive mentalization | Nature Neuroscience

How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs?

Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com

Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cocktail party effect - Wikipedia

The easiest way to convey how Consciousness and Attention are not the same: "The Cocktail Party Effect"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktai...
#CognitiveScience #CogSCI #COGS

Huge shoutout to my lab mates Zheng Li, Hassan Andrabi, and Hoang Long Nguyen who did an absolutely stellar job delivering their (first?) conference talks! 👏

Big thanks to the organisers, especially Cloudy, for a fantastic event.

#MathPsych #CogSci #Ageing #AcademicSky #DecisionScience #AMPC2026